JOIN USFlying squad foils 'novel' copying method
A ''novel'' copying method attempted in the on-going State Board plus two examinations in Tamil Nadu’s Namakkal district has put a school housing the exam centre in a soup, even as a flying squad foiled what could have led to a deplorable instance of mass copying.
The physics examination for plus two students was going on at a private school centre at Bommaikuttanmedu situated along the Namakkal-Salem road on March 11, when a flying squad, in a surprise check, stumbled on a large cardboard with answers indicated in bold numerals for some “eight one-word answer questions (multiple-choice questions)” figuring in the physics paper kept outside one of the classrooms, official sources told Deccan Herald over phone.
The cardboard indicating the answers was found kept by some miscreants some 150 feet away from the classroom where students were writing the exam. But the numerals, purporting to be answers to the multiple-choice queries were sufficiently in bold type to catch the students’ eyes, sources said on Wednesday. The flying squad immediately removed the cardboard and the exams went on.
“It is not an instance of mass copying; nor do we believe that there was any possible leakage of the question paper, for the answers of only eight ‘one-word answer questions’ were displayed on that cardboard,” the sources said. But the case was both novel and intriguing enough for the joint director of examinations (JDE) to order a detailed enquiry. The answers indicated could have even been just smart guesswork.
However, not wishing to take any chances and pending the findings of the enquiry, the JDE has ordered that all the 404 students, who took the exam at that centre now under the scan, be shifted to other nearby government schools to write the remaining four subject papers of this year’s plus two exam without affecting the on-going examination schedule, the sources added.